Deji hits back at YouTube subscriber botting accusations YouTube: DejiOladeji \u2018Deji\u2019 Olatunji has come under fire from Pierce \u2018Kavos\u2019 Kavanagh and the wider YouTube community for allegedly botting his way to 10 million YouTube subscribers. However, he has defended himself, saying that even he knows it \u201cdoesn\u2019t add up.\u201d Deji\u2019s 10 million subscriber celebration was meant to be something special for the long-time YouTuber. Breaching into eight figures is a milestone only a handful of YouTubers have achieved before him. However, it\u2019s been marred with controversy. First, he reportedly faked an illness and delayed his 10 million subscriber special, which led to the YouTuber\u2019s subscriber count falling back under. Now, allegations have arisen that he actually botted his way to the milestone in the first place. British YouTuber Kavos, who boasts over 1 million subscribers himself, called out Deji\u2019s \u201cunusual\u201d SocialBlade stats. He had stalled out at around 9.95 million subscribers, but over the course of five days, went up by 10,000 a day to break 10 million. This was all without a major change in his daily view stats. His suspicions were \u2018confirmed\u2019 when a company by the name of FreewaySocial stepped forward, saying that Deji allegedly paid them $2,000 to purchase 50,000 YouTube subscribers. The PayPal receipts and orders were in the YouTuber\u2019s name, while email addresses attached to the account were reportedly connected to his parents. The reason Thomas, the owner of FreewaySocial, released the information publicly was because Deji allegedly submitted a PayPal chargeback after dropping back below 10 million subscribers. \u201cDeji started losing YouTube subscribers right after reaching the 10 million mark, and he thought that they were [botted] subscribers that were dropped,\u201d he said. \u201cI kept explaining to him that these were his own subscribers that dropped, but he wasn\u2019t convinced.\u201d Buying YouTube subscribers is against YouTube\u2019s \u201cFake Engagement Policy,\u201d which prohibits content creators from \u201cartificially increasing the number of views, likes, comments or other metrics.\u201d \u201cThis is against YouTube terms of service,\u201d Kavos added. \u201cThis is so against the rules. Deji\u2019s channel might get terminated after this. It\u2019s all Deji\u2019s undoing as well. No one can ever trust [him] again.\u201d Deji has denied all allegations, asking other creators to stop creating drama and \u201cleave [him] alone,\u201d as well as threatening FreewaySocial with legal action. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard of [FreewaySocial] ever,\u201d he said in a statement on May 17. \u201cHe leaked an IP address claiming it was mine, but it\u2019s not. I don\u2019t owe you any money. I don\u2019t know who the f**k you are. If you want to go legal with this, I\u2019m 100% down.\u201d \u201cThey always somehow find a way to link my brother [KSI] into this, and it\u2019s just so f**king annoying. I have no knowledge of any of this. This is so bizarre. I just want to be left alone,\u201d the online star continued. YouTube is yet to take action or issue a statement, but we will update you if they do. As of publishing, Deji\u2019s now-9.93 million subscriber account is still active on the video-hosting platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deji hits back at YouTube subscriber botting accusations YouTube: DejiOladeji \u2018Deji\u2019 Olatunji has come under fire from Pierce \u2018Kavos\u2019 Kavanagh and the wider YouTube community for allegedly botting his way to 10 million YouTube subscribers. However, he has defended himself, saying that even he knows it \u201cdoesn\u2019t add up.\u201d Deji\u2019s 10 million subscriber celebration was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}